The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1887-06-25

| Nth'tu iNSo, "1aot "oViu nave uiS"Pe
peared from history" and about as
sensitle as would be an extreme con-
servative EngIishman's who might Sd y
"We will fix Gladstone's place in his
tory. Silence unprejudiced foreigners!"
Unfortunately for fanatics, such
causes, heroism and forti.ude as the
South's, such characters as Lees and
Grants, are the heritage and pride of
| humanity, which the great human
heart will enlbalm with truth in honor,
and bequeath as u precious legacy to
! coming generations; and in the same
way will the North's cause be handed
down.
Sherman and his followers might
tiud In Il speech delivered by Abraham
Lincoln just prior to the war, the fol-
lowing words: "With the Purse and
Sword, the Army, Navy and Treasury
in our hands and at our command you
could not dissolve the Union. This
Government would be very weak in.
deed, if majority, with Il disciplined
Army and Navy, and Il we'll filled
Treasury, could not preserve ITSELF"
That great and good man presaged
what afterward happened ; and Wolse-
ley saw, judged, and praised, the won-
derful struggle of the South against the
fearful odds that Lincoln foresaw she
| would meet.
They should know that tao way in
which they pervert Truth In regard to
the late Civil War and its causes, has
The merit only of persistence. That
the South in dire, dastardly manner,
by treason and treachery, attempted
to destroy the Union, and that alto
gether her cause was
"Of Cerberus and blackest midnight born,
In Stygian cave forlorn,''
accords lily with tho truth that, inter-
woven as the whole issue was With
slavery, for which if guilt there were
it was the guilt of the Union, the true
cause Of the war was difference in the
Interpretation of the Constitution, aud
the decision of point which not hav-
written in blood; manly difference,
nobly fought, and finally settled; and
the South rejoices that such criticisms
as are made against her, such socalled
history as is written about her, such
expressions as are cast on her, can not
blind the Argus eyed Muse. "Lies
pass away, Truth lives for ave." and
she abides the result.
Since, as Gen. Sherman quotes,
"Nothing succeeds like success" we
are too often prone TO consider suc-
cessful Rebellion a Revolution, an un-
successful Revolution Rebellion
"Rebellion foul dishonoring word,
whose wrongful blight so Oft has stained
Tho holicst cause that tongue or sword
Or mortal ever lost or gained;
How many spirit born to bless
Has sunk beneath that witheripg name,
Whom but q days an hours success
Had waited to eternal tamo!--
but the South fears no stain and her
many days and hours of success against
overwhelming odds will watt her to
eternal fame. The mists of SANDER are
even now rolling and rising from her
fair bosom. Here and there true ray,
such as Wolseley sends, illumines the
erstwhile gloom and its brightness Is
not dimmed by the cuttle-fish methods
of those Of the North who would
blacken the medium of truth.
The South asks herself chad the re-
suit been different would have shown
as little magnanImity to a fallen foe as
these ;raducers show to me? and all
her chiva!rous~ nature answers No
But they cause not her fair check to blush
Nor her proud head to bow;
For history ne'er will place brand
| On her unsullied brow.
And spite of preachers of the gospel of
hate, the Union can and will be one
nation and one people, as England and
Eng lish, Germany and Germans, are.
They had their civil wars, their victo.
rious and vanquished sections, and
they, like the United States, had an
history before and an history after the
civil war.
The South's ambition is 10 as nobly
play her part in the future as she ha: